Books reviewed are Civilizing the Museum: the Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian; Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions by John Falk and Beverley Sheppard; and Memory, Monuments and Museums: the Past in the Present, edited by Marilyn Lake.

We visit exhibitions on the explorer James Cook, fifty years of television in Australia, and first contact between Europeans and Indigenous Australians in the Western Desert.

Print copies of this issue will be available through the National Museum of Australia's shop.